Abstract: This dissertation presents a self-reflexive case study which I will call an autoethnography of translation. The study describes my own relationship, as a translator, to the North American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), one of the most representative creations of the horror genre in literature. In order to investigate that relationship, I utilize a qualitative research methodology which combines two instruments: life histories and verbal protocols (which I also refer to as translation protocols). During the analysis of the data collected, I attempt to verify the applicability to translation processes of certain psychoanalytic theories: the neo-Lacanianism of the writing theorist Mark Bracher (1999); the post-Lacanianism of Julia Kristeva and her notions of the Semiotic Register and the abject; the concept of the translation love relationship (or love affair) and the idea of the singular in translation writing processes of the Brazilian translation theorist Maria Paula Frota (2000); and the ¿Lacandemonic Schema¿ of the North American theorist of translation Douglas Robinson (2001). The focus of the investigation is the translator¿s visibility. I also make use of theories of reception in order to understand the implications ¿ including ethical implications ¿ of a translation relationship characterized as unhappy love, and which is constructed through the erasure of important aspects of the source text